Salesforce, California-located IT company plans of adding 5.48 lakh direct jobs in India in the coming days and predicts that India has potential of becoming the second largest in terms of GDP, a top official of the company reported on Friday. Vala Afshar, the Salesforce Chief Data evangelist, said on Raise summit that the company indirectly will be creating 13 lakh jobs in India.

Afshar said, “I think the impact of my company in India alone is going to create billions of dollars in incremental GDP. We are going to create 1.3 million new jobs indirectly with our customer and partner ecosystem but directly we are going to add 548,000 new jobs in the near future.”

It is estimated that Salesforce has market capitalization of almost USD 240 billion. Afshar added, “In the next couple of years we are committed to training 250,000 students. Education is key to reducing the digital divide."

79,000+ stakeholders from academics, the research industry and government representatives from 147 countries participated in the summit, which was conducted between October 5 and 9. It is according to the Ministry of Electronics and Information technology.

Afshar said, “India will soon be the world's most advanced connected society.”

Afshar also said that data is soon to be the key for the artificial intelligence economy and it is the reason for which India is poised to become a super power when it relates to artificial intelligence. He said, “India has 60 crore unique users connected to the internet and has an opportunity in the next 5-6 years in the world to be USD 6 trillion consumers spend power in India. Every 3 seconds a new person in India connects to the internet for the first time. What that means 600 million today will be over a billion unique users connected to the internet in perhaps just in the next five years. This also means that India is poised to be the second largest GDP in the world only behind China and ahead of the US.

Afshar concluded by saying, “Power of India is the fact that 80 percent of the population will be under the age of 44, and it will be the most advanced connected society in the world.”